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391. 4 Ways to Go Deeper with God When You Feel Spiritually Stuck.

January 22, 2026·34 min·2 clips

Brittany says hearing God directly is a "game changer" that moves faith from rules into relationship.

1. Morning, Mama | 391, "4 Ways to Go Deeper with God When You Feel Spiritually Stuck," focuses on spiritual dryness and intimacy with God. 2. Brittany, the host and a former marriage and family therapist, frames the topic through her own move, a recent sickness, and the Academy starting that day. 3. The episode asks what to do when someone feels "stuck with God" or wants to recover passion, intimacy, and connection. 4. Brittany describes two main groups: people who do not know how to go deeper with God, and people who once experienced depth but now feel dry. 5. She compares the spiritual life to marriage and farming, saying not every season is harvest season and some seasons are harder. 6. She also uses "rupture and repair" from therapy to explain how conflict and recovery can create more intimacy in relationships. 7. Brittany says even good seasons can create drift when people start taking God for granted and move into "checking the boxes." 8. She defines wonder as "a feeling of surprise mingled with admiration" caused by something "beautiful, unexpected, unfamiliar, or inexplicable." 9. She asks whether Bible reading, journaling, and prayer still feel like that kind of surprise and admiration. 10. Brittany says her own season after a miscarriage, alongside launching the podcast and stepping into ministry, opened her eyes to "the miraculous" and "the inexplicable elements of God." 11. The first practice is to let Scripture speak by reading slowly instead of rushing through a plan just to finish. 12. She contrasts a Bible-in-a-year approach with sitting at a "500 foot view," reading one verse or a chapter with curiosity and margin notes. 13. Brittany says the goal is not information alone but an "encounter" with God that changes daily life, thinking, speech, and relationships. 14. The second practice is to let God speak by asking direct questions in a journal, then sitting quietly and waiting for an answer. 15. She says God's response may come through a verse, a mental image like a "tsunami," or a new way of understanding a difficult season. 16. The third practice is prayer language, which she describes as a gift of tongues used privately to edify the believer and connect with the Holy Spirit. 17. Brittany cites Romans 8:26 and 1 Corinthians 14:18, and she recommends Robert Morris's book The God I Never Knew. 18. The fourth practice is worship, especially in person at church, where she says God's presence can feel tangible and burdens can lift. 19. The tone is pastoral and practical, with repeated repetition, personal examples, and direct coaching from Brittany to "let scripture speak to you" and "get in the room." 20. Women wanting a deeper relationship with God and Christian moms feeling spiritually dry would likely benefit most, while listeners uninterested in prayer language or church worship may skip it.

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A plainspoken reset for feeling stuck with God, centered on reading Scripture slowly as an encounter.

The episode treats feeling stuck with God as a real spiritual struggle and speaks to that listener with steady clarity. Brittany ties wonder to renewed passion, intimacy, and closeness with God, then lands on a simple center: read Scripture slowly, not just for information, but…

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You want your faith to feel alive again when prayer and Scripture feel stuck and thin.

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